Trivia
Dr. Akbar often asks her patients about their memories of childhood and dreams. What type of therapist is Dr. Akbar most likely to be?
A. Humanistic
B. Psychodynamic
C. Behaviorist
D. Somatic
B. Psychodynamic
When is a person less likely to conform?
Which disorder is characterized by an inability to remember a traumatic incident?
Which of the following cannot affect psychological traits?
What is a category of psychological disorders characterized by the elevation or lowering of a person's mood, such as major depression or bipolar disorder called?
Mood disorder
If Alice lives near a cattle plant, she probably doesn’t notice the neighborhood smell that visitors to her house complain about. What idea explains this phenomenon?
Which of the following is true of many people as they age?
A. They experience a loss of neurons in the brain
B.They experience a decline in crystallized intelligence
C. They gain a better sense of well-being
D. A and C
D
Which is likely true about people with somatoform disorders?
Which of the following statements accurately describes genes?
the storage of information over an extended period
Long term memory
If people work hard to reach a goal, they are likely to justify their hard work by valuing the goal highly. What is this tendency called?
Ani believes that her attitudes and behavior play a central role in what happens to her. Such a belief is likely to be associated with:
A. a strong superego.
B. low self-esteem.
C. low self-efficacy.
D. an internal locus of control.
D. an internal locus of control.
A person’s tendency to become addicted to a drug depends not only on the properties of the drug but also on the reason the person uses the drug. What does this observation suggest?
What underlies the phenomenon of neural plasticity following a localized brain injury?
Brain's ability to navigate tasks to undamaged areas
What are neurons that fire both when an animal acts and when the animal observes the same action performed by another called?
Mirror neurons
A person who has recently ingested a recreational drug cannot sleep and appears aggressive, paranoid, and restless. What might this drug have been?
What is likely the main conflict faced by an adolescent, according to Erikson?
People with obsessive-compulsive disorder often do which of the following?
What is a function of antagonists?
What is a defense mechanism leading to the temporary or long-term reversion of the ego to an earlier stage of development rather than handling unacceptable impulses in a more adult way called?
Regression
Jen decides to buy a lottery ticket. She knows her chances of winning are very small, only 1 in 10 million. But if she wins, she’ll get $10,000 in cash, and knowing that means that she can dream about going on a luxury cruise. What was her decision probably based on?
Justin sees his psychology professor arguing angrily with a worker at the local post office. From this, he assumes that his professor is a hostile person. What does his assumption illustrate?
Which subtype of schizophrenia often involves relatively normal cognitive functioning?
What is the interval called during which a neuron is dormant after an action potential has been completed?
What is a self-fulfilling prophecy?
What is a prediction that causes itself to become true, due to the simple fact that the prediction was made.